Mammals

Some familiar furry critters.

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Black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), interrupted during a feeding bout by alarm calls warning the group of an approaching hawk.

Despite evidence of their importance to the central plains of North America, these medium-sized rodents of the squirrel family have been severely persecuted over time, even today. As a result, their populations are a mere fraction of their former abundance, which far outnumbered bison during pre-settlement times.

Some prairie dog communities, called towns, once extended for tens of thousands of square miles, containing hundreds of millions of prairie dogs, supporting diverse plant & animal communtiies, including now endangered species such as the black-footed ferret.